Originally Posted by
mpkz
As far as I know, it's widely accepted that getting status on BA is the easiest route to status on oneWorld. For example, you can achieve Silver status (their second highest tier, equivalent to QR gold) with a roughly 1500 euro business class roundtrip (though you need to build in unnecessary segments). You can do this trip on QR or AA or whatever btw, most of the Tier Point runs on the BA forum here involve more legs on other airlines than BA. Then you fly BA 4 times short-haul to meet that requirement, which seems to be easy for you?
See this thread:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...hread-287.html
You need 600 tier points on BA to achieve silver (= QR gold), some of the fares in the Wiki cost less than GBP900 for 560 of those. If you start doing the more complicated ones in the the thread, you can almost get gold in one trip.
My personal problem with BA is that BA Avios are almost worthless because of how bad the product is (what's the point of upgrading on BA?) and because they don't fit my flight patterns, but if all you care about is status then I'd give that a strong look.
many thanks you must have read my mind as I was about to embark on more research re status on BA . I am an avid reader of the TP run thread over on the BA forum . Have had a few as back up should I not have reached the tally of QR plus a few BA short hall flights to enable me to get my gold ( OW sapphire ) renewed. However was not aware of the finer detail of sectors etc you are required - you have just explained this to me in nice simple terms. It’s interesting in your points about qualification for BA silver never realised it may be one of the easiest and cost effective was of getting OW status.
Like you I am not over enamoured wth flying BA long haul and I do like ( although availability and process is a real pain ) the possibility of an upgrade to premium cabins on QR. I also still like the hard and soft product in general that QR offer on board. As mentioned in my OP I now do have a growing collection of avios which I will use for redemption flights on BA shorthall routes for myself and family . As others have stated there is excellent availability ( as long as you plan ahead which I can) and the IT works in booking such awards which is refreshing from the difficulties I have recently had with QR , I suppose I still have the option that if I switch to BA for crediting I could if there were ever available get redemptions on QR . cheers